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Software Engineer / Analyst

I'm a Software Engineer with 5 years mix of experience and currently taking a Master’s degree in Information Technology (MIT). I have knowledge in programming and scripting languages such as c#, java, python, perl, bash and expect. I
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I'm a Software Engineer with 5 years mix of experience and currently taking a Master’s degree in Information Technology (MIT). I have knowledge in programming and scripting languages such as c#, java, python, perl, bash and expect. I also have knowledge in data analytics and visualization using Tableau tool and automated data extraction using Tableau API and python. I've been developing software from designing up to coding, implementation and also do automated testing.
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Technical Architect (SaaS, IaaS, Cloud)

Performance driven, highly ambitious Cloud Architect with an in-depth experience working with IaaS, PaaS and SaaS as a part of development, DevOps and SaaS Ops teams.
Dedicated, reliable and proactive self-starter with a proven record of taking initiatives with high
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Performance driven, highly ambitious Cloud Architect with an in-depth experience working with IaaS, PaaS and SaaS as a part of development, DevOps and SaaS Ops teams.
Dedicated, reliable and proactive self-starter with a proven record of taking initiatives with high responsibility, accepting the challenges and moving beyond the high expectations set by the management.
Crafty in troubleshooting difficult to grasp issues with ability to work independent and in teams of various sizes in diversified roles.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Specialties:
- Cloud Architecture: Architecting and implementing secure, highly available and scalable systems using AWS - Amazon Web Services (including but not limited to EC2, VPC, Route53, RDS, S3, CloudFormation etc.)
- Cloud transformation: Migration to private/hybrid clouds from legacy data centers.
- Production Monitoring: Setting up highly automated monitoring of live systems using various tools in the market including Nagios, Amazon CloudWatch, ActiveBatch, Graphite, Munin etc.
- Continuous Integration/Delivery: Build, test and release automation using various CI and CD tools including Maven, Jenkins / Hudson, Sonar and AWS with various scripting languages like Apache ANT, shell script, python, MSBuild, Powershell, VBScript etc.
- Database Migration: Migration of large challenging databases to cloud with minimal downtime.
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Systems admin, DBA, developer, application architect

During my 20+ years of experience, I've gone through several different IT roles: developer, analyst, database designer, database admin, systems administrator, network designer, team leader, architect, CTO. This background allows me to understand all aspects involved in application development
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During my 20+ years of experience, I've gone through several different IT roles: developer, analyst, database designer, database admin, systems administrator, network designer, team leader, architect, CTO. This background allows me to understand all aspects involved in application development, being able to design a complex multi platform app from the ground up as well as help troubleshooting an existing app's problems or weird system behaviour.
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Over 250 happy clients. Ideas man, innovation expert and one man think tank! Big hitting programming veteran rocking out hard to code everyday. I build fast loading websites that bring in more revenue. Comprehensive knowledge of XML based document publishing systems and well versed in PHP 5. Ex Adobe Coldfusion programmer. Junior Pythonista! Ruby Wannabe! 24/7 365 IT Nerd and Digital Nomad. A past school chess prodigy. Electronic dance music enthusiast. Science Fiction / Fantasy fan.
I have enough work at the moment, so I am only accepting hourly jobs on oDesk at my advertised hourly rate - unless you hire me for Ruby, Python, XQuery, JSONiq work where I will accept less. If you are a past client I am willing to negotiate my rate. Or you could just make me an offer!
I am currently working for three reasonably large USA companies / government departments some indirectly - two in California. All these jobs involve some form of document publishing. Recently I have been working for a UK based company that develops cutting edge Apple Filemaker Database solutions for Global 500 clients and this job has also involved document publishing. All of these jobs involve a minimal number of hours per week in an expert level consulting capacity.
For the last 5+ years international companies small and large have relied on my profound knowledge and skills to successfully complete their projects. My ongoing availability is subject to how much you can pay me per hour.
Some software / technologies that I have worked with - Ecrion XF designer, Altova XMLSpy / Stylevision, oXygen XML editor, Stylus Studio, XEP, Xalan, Saxon, Apache FOP, Ibex, xsltproc, EXSLT, MSXML, MSXSL, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Orbeon XForms, Docbook (Authoring and XSLT), DITA OT, HL7, FMPXMLRESULT, WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, eXist Native XML database with XQuery Update, BaseX, XProc - An XML Pipeline Language.
Interested in working with MongoDB, JSONiq, MarkLogic, Phalcon PHP, Yii Framework, NoSQL, HHVM, Zend Framework, AngularJS, Big Data, Django, Zope, Plone, Altova server products (Raptor XML, Flowforce, MapForce, Stylevision)
I have an iMac running OS X Yosemite, 2 desktop PCs running various linux distros, a Lubuntu laptop, a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 KitKat mobile phone, a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 running KitKat, a Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Tablet running Windows 8.1 and a Firefox OS based mobile phone. When I am awake all my notifications get sent to my Samsung Gear 2 smart watch. In my spare time I like to stream movies and TV shows to my Apple TV and my Google Chromecast, well that's when I'm not learning Ruby or doing challenges on Khan Academy or similar sites.
Do you remember those 1980's style left to right arcade games where when you got to the end of the level you had to try to defeat the big boss and then at the end of the game you had to fight the super boss? Well thinking along those lines, I am the undefeated super boss programmer looking for my next elite coding challenge!
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/programmers-price
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